From here in 2017 it all seemslike some ghastly unreal dreamyet a century ago this vauntedwar that was to end all warshad one more grim year to rununtold millions already deadrivers of blood still to be shed.The memorials are all aroundin every city, village and townmonuments to the carnageand bereavement scarringthis green and pleasant landforever after it seemed thenthough few now even lookat these sombre cenotaphsthe whole catastrophehaving been consignedto the dustbin of historyor the dull factual pagesof high school textbooks.Oh, our minds should behaunted and full of ghostsfor across the Channelnot so far away in Francethousands of young menwere dying day after day.Did they thus fall in vainto be unremembered so?Who of us cares anymoreabout this forgotten war?